The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-07-01
THE NeWspApF IS or FRANCE.
The Opinions Of the Two Mr. f"it1ers
Decidedly Different Ideas.

was in an English tailor shop the other
morning and the proprietor. a. GROWING
argument in favor Of his Sartorlai pro
ductions. produced a pair ~ trousers Tor
Mr. Pulitzer The size ~ the trousers
attracted my attention AID little inVes-
tigation led 20 the interesting discovery
that there were two Mr. Pulizers IN
Paris. and that while Hr. Joseph Pulitzer
has been living In state al the Hotel Bris-
tol with his me apartment, his courier,
etc. Mr. Albert Pulitzer, " The New
York Morning journal. has also been nv
ng in state though more quietly, at the
Grand Hotel. he too having his fine apart
ment and his courier, which all goes 70
show. First. that is a great thing to have
a "large circulation and second, that the
Paris CORES pondent q The Morning Jour
nal does not write the society notes IN Inc
Galiynani- Messenger
The opinions Of these two eminent Jour
nalst- ON the newspapers Of France are
Of course most interesting Mr.. joseph
Pulitzer spoke as follows on the subject.
lyon want my opinion on French news
papers, Well ! can give il % you very
quickly. think IL IS simply disgracei ul
the kind of thing which they produce
here They are newspapers in name, put
newspapers with the news left out They
print neither home news nor foreign news,
iu fact they print nothing but stories ana
essays They have 10 enterprise WHY
this late disaster 20 the Champagne 40
Ha,re was hardly noticed by them |
had to get the details from the scanty
little English payers pointing % the
/ Galignaui and the Morning News Now
am American newspaper which understood
its business would have had man ON the
spot by the very first train go interview
the officers, the captain and the pas
sengers. to get photographs of the scene,
etc. and 90 send OF complete account
by telegraph regardless OF expense. NO,
sir. don't think much II French news
papers and. by the way ! don't think
much more " their English rivals
Mr. Albert Pulitzer has decidedly diff
ferent ideas on the same question. II
know that &c is the fashion, he said, "to
condemn French Journals on the ground
chat they are deficient in what we call
news OF course it is evident that in
this respect they are long way behind us.
but attribute 10 not 90 any lack Of enter
/ IIInN ODD NIIF IIlilA NA NiAiN''i1 thi'.t
tors-mr from it-but t0 the fact that
they recognize that the general demand IS
for something quito different People in
France have not got that terrible thirst for
news which consumes AS az home, they
are not no AN I'm hurry TO know about
accidents and crimes before % is neces
,ary. and even then they don't want %
great MISS 0f slckening details ln many
ways their tastes are more elevated sham
ours For example, The Figaro will print
two columns on a new play by Alexandra
Dumas. and viii employ one of the most
distinguished literary men In the country
tO write the criticism There is another
great difference, iD france all the great
writer's contribute 10 the newspapers. and
these men are paid as much as $1,000 90
SID 600 year The result is that % first
class French newspaper becomes really "a
vehicle for the transmission of the highest
order " literary, scientific and artistic
thought and certainly that is very much
more than we can say of our American
papers. even the best OF them Paris
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